We are proud to have played our small part in helping Martin Jennings to enlarge the armature for his George Orwell sculpture, which is now in place outside the BBC, beside an inscription on the wall that reads “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

** FILE ** Writer George Orwell poses in this undated photo at an unknown location. George Orwell’s left-wing views and bohemian clothes led British police to label him a communist _ but the MI5 spy agency stepped in to correct that view, the writer’s newly released security file reveals. The secret file the intelligence agency kept on the author from 1929 until his death in 1950 was declassified by the National Archives. (AP Photo)